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“The exercise room is 30 by 40, not too bad, but the biggest thing is the amount of percussion materiel, the drums and a xylophone, and a third of the room is taken up,” Regan said. “You get 80 students in there with their music stands and it is remarkably packed.”

A $1 million replacement for the band dwell to serve the 220 student musicians in a school of 1,250 kids is one of the big-ticket items on a index of priorities to spend $14.5 million in Measure I restraints money over the next 20 years.

“This community is arts oriented, and not only music,” Regan said. “When you consolidate choir and band and orchestra, a huge percentage of the schoolboy population is involved. Look at music, drama, gambol, visual arts — all are thriving here.”

Trustees for the West County Imbue with District adopted the spending plan a week ago during a intersection in which advocates lobbied, sometimes emotionally, for their favorite school projects.

Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

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